Sentences with phrase «state of the discourse»

... The discussion meanders along the surface, touching on Russian interference in U.S. elections and the state of discourse in American society — though never deeply.

In the current state of the discourse, any risk that is not clearly explained will be treated as if it doesn't exist.

Meanwhile, in the real world, people note Trenberth's attacks as a sad sign of the state of discourse these days...

The denialists, like the snake, are poisoning the state of discourse on climate change by spreading misinformation.

Not exact matches

We must once again seek the moral high ground and cleanse our national discourse of those who wish to foster bigotry and hate, be they a disgraced and convicted former sheriff or the president of the United States.

However, given the state of our political discourse in America I have decided to give up on politicians.

«Purify [the Hadith];... Find a new practice of the concept of interaction between the sexes;... Separate religion from the state;... Give guidelines on Western customs, and eliminate incorrect behaviours;... Invite the people to go to God through gratitude and wisdom, and not with threats;... Recognise the right of Christians to occupy important positions [including] the presidency of the republic;... Separate religious discourse from power, and re-establish its connection with the needs of society.»

As the conversation turns to the state of our nation's political discourse, let's remember that as followers of Jesus, we should make this a time of reflection and repentance rather than finger - pointing, for Christ's definition of violent rhetoric holds us to the highest possible standards:

But after nearly 20 years in our nation's capital, I'm disheartened by the poisonous state of our political discourse and even more by the contribution that have been made to the toxicity by those who do it in the name of Jesus.

The President's warning is directed against the dominant discourse carried out by the think tank in the financial media which comprises of the Government (both Center and State).

To the contrary, the discourse is about the activities of the state or about legislated norms by which all social action will be governed.

However, with the doctrine of the separation of church and state, the West found itself having to deal with death, but unable completely to do so within the limited discourse of military force and the public will.

One strand, which survives in popular discourse and in the courts but is in serious danger of vanishing from the academy, is the view that the state must be neutral, neither choosing among religions nor choosing between religion and nonreligion.

See Carl Hausman, A Discourse on Novelty and Creation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984); this is a reprint of the book issued under the same title in 1976 by Martinus Nijhoff, but Hausman (more or less) affirms in 1984 what he said in 1976.

Some years ago, University of Chicago ethicist James Gustafson pointed to the possibility that our congregations might become «communities of moral discourse» where proponents of laissez - faire economics would encounter advocates of the welfare state in earnest conversation and study, thereby checking the idolatry of both extremes.

With respect to each of these questions, either an affirmative or negative answer can now be shown to be not merely prudent or imprudent but, given the current state of constitutional discourse, actually required or prohibited by the Constitution.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

That Prof. Novak and his coauthors chose to lower the level of discourse not only in First Things but in their strident letter in the April 2002 issue of Commentary, in which they dismiss the possibility of dialogue with Prof. Levenson «in his present state of mind,» is most lamentable.

Hunter's book presents a strong case for understanding the current state of public discourse as a «culture war,» shaped by ideological extremes.

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

It is necessary to transcend the sixteenth «century state of the question, in which the complexities of theological discourse were insufficiently noted.

it would keep creationism and id out of the science classes AND be a huge step in the right direction to keeping religious idiocy out of political discourse in the united states.

Are we simply to disregard Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality because of his invocation of a state of nature and a subsequent state of nascent civil society?

It is an entirely different thing when the president of the United States uses the same dehumanizing language in public discourse.

As you have read me state, in Jesus» discourse with Martha, a strict identification is made between the terms «Christ» and «Son of God» with «the One who guarantees eternal life and resurrection to the believer».

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Where Gibson is private, McLain, 49, holds the most public of jobs in the 1990s: He hosts a radio call - in show in Detroit, discoursing during morning drive time on everything from the state legislature to the state of the world.

Members of this panel do not always agree, but the discourse is respectful and represents the state of the art in this field.

He specifically identified race relations, income inequality, and the state of political discourse as threats to the fabric of the republic.

«His intervention in the discourse with the view to defend his record has opened up a number of issues... the truth is that he presided over an administration that did enormous damage to the fortunes of this country; and it was not just that he presided over it; and I regret to say this, he was an active participant in depriving this country of precious resources; indeed he was an active participant in the abuse of resources of the state entrusted into his care as President...

The result is contestations of established state - centric, uniformly hierarchical structures and homogenised «national» discourses of identity, with city - regions reduced to merely a subordinate and therefore dependent actor when it comes to shaping national and, increasingly, international agendas.

The tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.

This conflict, and the wider political division in which it is situated, is part of a continuing national discourse on the structure of the Nigerian state.

In contemporary British politics, this idealist language is present in various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the State.

Hence, the great question at stake within debates on plurinationalism is whether it can reconcile particular rights based on identity with strong state sovereignty and a discourse of equality, while avoiding new exclusions and potential conflict associated with territorializing models of ethnocultural difference.

These «discourses» take the form of a commentary on the opening ten books of Livy's history of Rome.In his opening two book Livy had contrasted the lack of freedom suffered by Rome under her early kings with the civitas libera, the free state, that the people were able to set up with elected consuls in place of hereditary kings after the expulsion of the Tarquins.

Borrowing from cosmopolitan discourse, Selasi describes a class of people who have deep and meaningful — yet fluid, connections to Africa, while identifying more so as citizens of the world than any particular nation state.

The second observation is to recall how the advocacy of an overt smaller state argument by many in the Coalition would, quite apart from polarising British politics like nothing since» 83, risk seeing the Left falling once again into a framing trap that pushes the centre of gravity in political discourse even further to the right.

This should shift political and public discourse beyond «public versus private» dichotomies to help identify innovative ways of financing the twenty - first century state.

Mr. Mahama underscored the need for NDC members to be decorous in their political discourse, indicating the powerfulness of the tongue, stating «what you speak has more power than even your physical action and the words, once they leave your mouth, you can not take them back.

From such a (conventional) perspective, states are seen as the «natural» rallying points of national discourses of self - determination and their geographic manifestation.

On the contrary, one can observe radicalisation of the political discourse in other EU Member States.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

Drawing on Rogers Smith's «The American Creed and American Identity: the limits of liberal citizenship in the United States» (1988) and Yoav Peled and Gershon Shafir's «Being Israeli: the dynamics of Multiple Citizenship» (2002) the paper seeks to scrutinise the dynamics between three prominent discourse in Israeli identity: ethno - national, liberal and republican.

The state can be a rational, self - interested, power - maximizing actor, yet deconstructing the discourse on state rationality and state egoism, defined as the pursuit of national interests, paints a more complex picture of the facets of state conduct.

Increasingly in our media, in our politics, in public discourse, in education we treat the absence of god and the absence of the belief in god as the centre ground, the assumed default position, the neutral state.

The typical discourse of «the world is against us» that, although serving the political ambitions of some people, has lead to the demise of several states (USSR included).

In his welcome address, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police command, Imohimi Edgal stated that the book could not have been written at a better time than now, describing the title as apt and germane to national discourse.

Permit me to begin this legal discourse by expressing unreserved gratitude to the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Executive Governor of Kaduna State,...

If you talk about public discourse right now, thirty years after, the things people are talking about are true federalism and devolution of powers and state supremacy, there are things that he had actually answered to, but people were not able to put the questions together and also to process it because of the way that Nigeria had being divided into craters and valleys.